Creative Effects Processing with GUITAR RIG

If you're growing tired with the same old sounds, effects, and plugins, maybe it's time to mix it up! In this video course, recording expert Thomas Cochran will teach you many creative ways to use Native Instruments' GUITAR RIG plugin in your productions on all kinds of sources, from drums and loops to synths and more. Get experimental and have some fun learning how to achieve new, innovative tones with unorthodox methods! These videos are for users with a basic familiarity of GUITAR RIG and routing in your DAW.

Drums

• Mixing Vintage Acoustic Drums Pt. 1 (07:18) - Learn how to use Native Instruments Guitar Rig 6 to enhance and mix acoustic drums. The video will cover various techniques and tools within Guitar Rig 6 to achieve a polished, professional drum sound.

• Mixing Vintage Acoustic Drums Pt. 2 (09:37) - To finish up the patch, we take a look at the other drums sounds and overheads and show how they can be mixed to adjust the tone of our drums.

• Shaping Percussion Using Microphone & Amp Modeling (09:18) - This video shows how to use the plugin?s amp and microphone modeling to shape percussion loops. This allows for all sorts of interesting tonal shaping because of the microphone modeling.

• Shaping 808 Kicks Using Guitar Rig (10:47) - Discover how 808 kicks can be shaped using the multi-band processors in Guitar Rig 6. This lets you have a full low end while still letting you distort and shape the top end frequencies.

• Modulation & Stereo Widening on Drum Loops (13:50) - This video will cover techniques for adding movement and depth to drum tracks using the modulators and stereo wideners within Guitar Rig 6. This can be great effect for adding flavor to vintage drum machines.

Synths & Instruments

• Pitch Shifting Synth Reverbs (11:38) - Next, we take a look at how pitch shifting pedals can be used to thicken reverbs on synth patches. This allows for fuller-sounding reverbs and all sorts of creative effects processing.

• Making Lush Pads with FX (10:54) - Learn how to transform simple synth sounds into lush pads using the effects in the plugin.

• Advanced Modulation Patch with LFOs Pt. 1 (08:38) - See how the internal LFOs can be used to add advanced movement to patches in Guitar Rig. This allows for complex modulation on your synth sounds.

• Advanced Modulation Patch with LFOs Pt. 2 (09:41) - This video wraps up the discussion on advanced modulation and layers in a few more effects on the sound.

• Making Chords from Percussion (12:17) - Learn how to use Reso-Chord to create a melodic element from a simple kick drum. This affords all sorts of creative options in your productions.